Land: Elizabeth Kinton to Levi Agnew, 1857: Bedford Borough, Bedford Co, PA Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Nancy Peche, Jeff Rinscheid, Rhonda Neibauer,Mary Crisman, Margo Knepp, Carson Brown, Eilene Moore, Charlotte Armour, and other Wertz researchers. NLPeche@aol.com USGENWEB NOTICE: Printing this file by non-commercial individuals and libraries is encouraged, as long as all notices and submitter information is included. Any other use, including copying files to other sites requires permission from the submitters PRIOR to uploading to any other sites. We encourage links to the state and county table of contents. ---------- Deed Indenture # 1445 Book AW Page 389, 390. 10th December 1857 John Kinton, brother of Elizabeth Kinton Their parents: John Kinton & Elizabeth GORDON JOHN KINTON, Adm. Of ELIZABETH KINTON to VALENTINE WERTZ This Indenture made the Tenth day of December in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty seven. Between JOHN KINTON, administrator of all singular the goods and chattels, rights and credits which were of ELIZABETH KINTON, late of the Borough of Bedford in the County of Bedford and State of Pennsylvania, deceased of the one part and VALENTINE V. WERTZ of the County and State of aforesaid of the other part: Whereas at the said ELIZABETH KINTON in her lifetime and at the time of her death, was seized in her demised as of fact of and in a house and lot of ground in the Borrough of Bedford and situated in the [?] of said Town No. 43, And Whereas Letters of Testamentary of all and singular the goods and chattels rights and credits which were of the said ELIZABETH KINTON at the time of her death now in duly law committed unto the said Administrator JOHN KINTON and whereas the said Administrator at an Orphans Court held at Bedford and for the County of Bedford presented a citation selling forth that the personal property of the said [?] were not sufficient to pay justified by the debts [?] ing by the said estate . Whereupon at appearing [?] unto the Court aforesaid that the personal estate of the said ELIZABETH KINTON was not sufficient to pay and satisfy the debts aforesaid. It was considered and ordered by the said Court on the 5th day of September A.D. One thousand eight hundred and fifty seven that the Real Estate aforesaid (to wit, house of Lot No. 43) to be sold according to the prayer of the petitioner and Whereas in pursuance of the said order and by force and virtue of the laws of the Sate in such case made and provided afterward to [?] the tenth day of October A.D. 1857 the said JOHN KINTON, admin. As aforesaid did expose the [?] hereinafter described Real Estate to sale at public venue & outcry after giving notice thereof according to law and sold the same unto the said VALENTINE V. WERTZ for the sum of Five hundred and seventy five dollars, he being the highest bidder, and that the highest and best price bidden therefor which sale on report thereof made to the Judges of the said Court on the sixteenth day of November A.D. 1857 was confirmed and it was considered and adjudged by the said Court that the same should and remain firm and stable forever and good and sufficient security approved by the said Court for the faithful application of the proceeds of sale has been duly entered as by the records of the same Court now fully and at large appears. Now this Indenture Witnesseth that the said JOHN KINTON administrator as aforesaid for and in consideration of the sum of Five hundred and twenty-five dollars to him in hand paid by the said VALENTINE V. WERTZ at and before the unsealing and delivery hereof the receipt whereof he does hereby acknowledge. ? granted, bargained, sold, aligned, enfeoffed , released and confirmed and by these present does hereby grant, bargain, sell alien, enfeoff, release and confirm unto the said VALENTINE V. WERTZ and to his heirs and assigns all the following described Real Estate to wit the house and lot of ground aforesaid situate in the Borrough of Bedford and marked in the said Lot being sixty feet & West hundred and forty feet to twenty feet wide alley being the same ground which JOHN GLASS, Jr. purchased from Major GEO. GRAHAM in hi lifetime and which was afterwards by the Order of the Orphans Court of Somerset County conveyed to the said JOHN GLASS, Jr. by Deed dated the 9th day of September 1847 and which the said JOHN GLASS Jr. and wife by deed of 20th Oct 1840 conveyed to the said ELIZABETH KINTON. Together also with all and singular to Buildings, Improvements, ways, waters, water courses, rights liberties, privileges, hereditaments and appurtenances whatsoever thereunto belonging in anywise appertaining and the reversions and remainder and issues and profits thereof and also all the right, title, interest, proper claim and demand whatever of the said ELIZABETH KINTON sick in her lifetime and immediately before the time of her decease in lawful equity or otherwise howsoever of in and to or out of the same. To Have and To Hold the said House of Lot sp. Ground, hereditaments and premises hereby granted, or mentioned and intended so to be with the appurtenances unto the said VALENTINE V. WERTZ and his heirs and assigns, forever and the said JOHN KINTON adm. As aforesaid does covenant, promise, grant and agree to and with the said VALENTINE V. WERTZ and his heirs and assigns by these present that he the said JOHN KINTON adm. As aforesaid has not done committed or knowingly or willingly suffered to be done any set matter or thing whatsoever whereby the premises aforesaid or any part thereof is or shall or may be charged or encumbered, in little charge or estate or otherwise howsoever. In Witness Whereof the said JOHN KINTON, adm. of ELIZABETH KINTON, deceased has been hereunto set his hand and seal the day and year above written. Signed, Sealed, and Delivered } JOHN KINTON [Seal] in the presence of } Administratior of Elizabeth Kinton, deceased L. Rodebaugh Job Mann Recorded the day of the date of the above Indenture, of the above named VALENTINE V. WERTZ the sum of Five Hundred and twenty five Dollars in full of the consideration money above mentioned. JOHN KINTON (Administrator of Elizabeth Kinton)